Topic outline

  • Required reading:

    Michael OndaatjeThe Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film


    We watch selected films from the following:

    Orson Welles: Touch of Evil, directors cut 1958/1998

    Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather, 1972

    George Lucas: Thx1138, 1971

    Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather II, 1974

    Francis Ford Coppola: Conversation, 1974

    Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather III, 1990

    George Lucas: American Graffiti, 1973

    Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now , 1979

    Anthony Minghella: English Patient, 1996

    Anthony Minghella: Talented Mr Ripley, 1999

    Philip Kaufman: Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1988

    Walter Murch: Return to Oz, 1985

    Fred Zinnemann: Julia, 1977